Senior OpenShift Administrator

Accenture•Tampa, FL

1d•$62,800 - $182,600•Hybrid

About The Position

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000 people across 24 countries, ATCs will provide our clients seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions. The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. Now, with the global environment changing at a faster pace, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges and they need us more than ever before. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients. For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world. For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape truly boundaryless career paths in a highly collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve the world’s most complex client challenges.

Requirements

A minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience administering Red Hat OpenShift in production enterprise environments including demonstrated experience with OpenShift on-premises deployments (bare-metal, VMware vSphere, or IPI/UPI installations).
A minimum of 5 year of experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) or OpenShift deployments in Microsoft Azure cloud.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.x — cluster installation, upgrade, and day-2 operations.
Kubernetes core concepts: workloads, services, ingress, RBAC, namespaces, custom resources, and operators.
Networking: OVN-Kubernetes, load balancers, DNS, TLS/certificate management.
Storage: OCS/ODF, CSI drivers, persistent volume provisioning.
Monitoring & logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch/Loki, OpenShift cluster logging operator.
Scripting and automation: Bash, Python, Ansible.
Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform or equivalent.
Source control and GitOps: Git, ArgoCD / OpenShift GitOps.
Container image management: Quay, OpenShift internal registry, image scanning.

Nice To Haves

Strong background supporting large, complex client environments with high availability and compliance requirements (healthcare, financial services, or similar regulated industries preferred).
Experience with Linux system administration (RHEL/CoreOS) and container runtime fundamentals.

Responsibilities

Administer, maintain, and optimize Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters deployed on-premises (bare-metal / VMware) and in Microsoft Azure (ARO – Azure Red Hat OpenShift).
Perform cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, patching, node scaling, and certificate rotation with minimal disruption to production workloads.
Monitor cluster health using OpenShift built-in tools, Prometheus, Grafana, and enterprise observability stacks; respond to and resolve platform-level incidents.
Manage OpenShift networking components including SDN/OVN-Kubernetes, routes, ingress controllers, and network policies.
Administer OpenShift storage integrations (OCS/ODF, persistent volumes, storage classes) for stateful workloads.
Enforce RBAC, security context constraints (SCC), and image policy controls aligned to client security standards.
Support CI/CD pipeline integrations with OpenShift (Tekton Pipelines, ArgoCD / OpenShift GitOps, Jenkins).
Collaborate with application and DevOps teams on containerization best practices, Helm chart management, and Operator lifecycle management (OLM).
Maintain and improve Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates using Ansible, Terraform, or OpenShift/Kubernetes manifests.
Participate in change management processes; ensure all platform changes meet lead-time requirements and are communicated proactively to client stakeholders.
Support or advise on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster operations including node pool management, Azure AD integration, and Azure CNI/policy add-ons.
Provide operational support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments including Autopilot/Standard cluster management and GCP IAM integration.
Contribute to cross-platform standardization efforts for observability, security, and GitOps practices across OpenShift, AKS, and GKE.